"VML as a standard offers users the promise of even more compatibility, as well as ease of use and reuse of intelligent vector data on the Web." "Autodesk is a strong advocate for interoperability between design, drawing and office applications, as evidenced by its own public data formats, DXF and DWF, which are used widely in many software packages," said Anne Bonaparte, senior director of the design team solutions group at Autodesk. VML will preserve the full fidelity of Office Art objects and allow "round tripping" that is, the HTML file can be opened and edited back in an Office application with no loss of quality. VML support in the next version of Office will allow users to save Office Art graphics as editable elements in their HTML pages for delivery to the Web. Microsoft plans support of VML in Microsoft ® Internet Explorer, the Windows ® operating system and the next version of Microsoft Office. VML will be supported broadly by Autodesk, Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia, Microsoft and Visio in future versions of their products. Leading Industry Participants to Incorporate VML Into Their Products In addition, hyperlinks may be easily added to the VML elements. Because VML graphics are fully integrated within the HTML document, they can interact and scale with other elements on the Web page, and no additional files are required for download. This results in reduced download time, as compared to the download times of image graphic formats such as GIF and PNG, creating a more satisfying user experience. Smooth lines can be expressed very compactly because VML graphics use paths based on cubic Bézier curves.
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